What is SSL? Or Thawte

SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer, a technology for managing the security of online message transmission. SSL encrypts or scrambles any information sent from your browser to the server you are connected to, making it impossible to intercept or steal information on the way.

So how do I know that the site I am visiting uses SSL encryption to secure my details?

SSL goes along with a Web Server Certificate that proves that the owner of the online business is who he says he is. The big problem is that you do not know who is on the other side receiving your information.

Thawte performs stringent checks on businesses applying for certificates to ensure that the guy on the other side is a legal entity.

And that’s the difference a Thawte digital certificate makes. Thawte offers a thorough process of authentication before we provide a business with a digital certificate. It will always imply that the organization named in the certificate has the right to use the domain name included in the certificate, that the organization named in the certificate is a legal entity and that the individual who requested the SSL certificate on behalf of the organization was authorized to do so.

SSL without authentication is misleading. It is only half the story. Some low cost competitors offer SSL and a low level of authentication, which means that the business did not go through the rigorous authentication and verification process. There is still room for fraud with low level authentication.

With a trusted authority, like Thawte, you the customers can have confidence that you actually are sending confidential information to where you think you are sending it.